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Showing 131–140 of 6075 articles for “Art. 13 mars 2012”
The registers and documents that professionals are required to keep or draw up have, against their author, the same evidential force as writings under private signature; but the person relying on them…
A contest between successive assignees of a claim is resolved in favour of the first in date; he has recourse against the person to whom the debtor would have made a payment.
The extinction of the old obligation extends to all its accessories. As an exception, the original collateral may be reserved to secure the new obligation with the consent of the third-party guarantor…
The debtor is put on notice to pay either by a summons or an act providing sufficient interpellation, or, if the contract so provides, by the mere due date of the obligation.
Where the creditor, on the due date and without legitimate cause, refuses to receive the payment due to him or prevents it by his act, the debtor may give him formal notice to accept or allow performa…
Subrogation takes place by operation of law alone in favour of the person who, having a legitimate interest therein, pays whenever his payment discharges from liability to the creditor the person on w…
Debt forgiveness is the contract by which the creditor releases the debtor from his obligation.
No one may constitute a title to himself.
A deed under private signature, recognised by the party against whom it is opposed or legally held to be recognised with respect to that party, is authentic between those who have subscribed it and wi…
A confession is the statement by which a person acknowledges as true a fact likely to produce legal consequences against him.It may be judicial or extrajudicial.
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